Closure for bags.



PATBNTED JUNE 9, 1908.

T. MANAHAN. CLOSURE FOR BAGS. APPLIOATION FILED JAN. 29. 1908.

INVENTOR 750mm" flYanaZan ATTORNEY WITNESSES:

FIQE.

THOMAS MANAHAN, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

CLOSURE FOR BAGS.

Specification of LetterelPatent.

Patented-June 9, 1908.

Application filed-January 29, 1908. SerialNo. 4l3,217.

To, all whom it may concern.

Be it known that I, THOMAS MANAHAN, a citizen of the Uhited States, residing at New York city, in the county of New York and State of New York, have invented new and useful Improvements in fllosures for Bags, of which the following is a s ecification.

In bags, wrappers and tlie like for suspending apparel and other articles, difiiculty was experienced because of the hanger or loop by which the bag was suspended-being wrenched or wedged off by the single continuous tube employed for locking the closing flap in shut position.

By means of this invention such difliculties are avoided and the hanger and bag are both allowed tocome to vertical position or into alinement and wrenching or wedging is avoided.

This invention is set forth in the following specification and claims and illustratedin the annexed drawing in which Figure 1 is a rear elevation of a bag embodying this invention. Fig. 2 is a section along line at m Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a perspective view of the tube. Fig. 4 is a section along line 1] y Fig. 3.

The bag or wrapper a with closin flap b and looking or closing tube 0 are well nown. This tube beingsplit can be slipped onto and off the bag freeing the closing flap.

The hanger or 00p (1 hinges or swings on late e as usual. In former devices this anger d ressing against the closing tube 0 when the ag is sus ended would be liable to be wrenched or we ged off or the plate 6 with the clothes hooks g would be torn frorn the bag. By providing tube 0 with a cut-out f, the loo or hanger d is allowed to swing in a vertical position or into line with the bag, avoiding the prying process of the continuous tube.

The bag with the contents then being suspended, the pull on the hanger (Z as well as on ooks 9 being vertically downward will not tend to Wrench the hanger d off its hinge or off the bag, since there will be no leverage on the ban er due to contact with the tube.

T e'hooks g are secured through slots in the plate 2 as heretofore. In addition to the plate 6 a re-inforcing plate It through which the hooks g are passed and clenched give additional hold so that the hooks g can support the weight of heavy garments or other material suspended in the bag.

In order to prevent the tube catching as it is slipped into place or removed said tube at the ends of itsslit is beveled or rounded so as to slip past any projection in its path. The ends of the slit at the out f are also beveled or rounded to allow easy passage of they tube.

In order to remove the tube of Fig. 1 the loop (2 is first turned down to lie flat a ainst the bag. The tube thus being released ythe loop 0! having been swung out of out f the tube a can be removed from the bag.

I claim 1. In combination, a bag; a removable split-tube rovided witha cut+out in its side, said tube Being adaptedto be inserted endwise on the bag straddling the sides thereof at its mouth; and a metal suspension-hanger pivotally secured to a ply of the bag and adapted to be pivoted into and out of the cutout in the side of the tube when said tube is on the bag, said cut-out being adapted in depth to receive the hanger without substantial leverage thereon due to contactwith the tube when the hanger is in the out-out and is suspending the bag. I

2. In combinatlon, a bag; a removable split-tube provided with a cut-out, said tube being adapted to be inserted endwise on the bag straddling the sides thereof at its mouth; and a bag-suspending hanger secured to the bag and movable into and out of the cut-out in the tube, when said tube is on the bag, said hanger when located in the cut-out having its free end substantially central over the top of the tube.

3. In combination, a bag; a removable split-tube provided with a cut-out, said tube being adapted to be inserted on the bag straddling the sides thereof at'its mouth; a pair of plates on opposite sides of one ply of the bag near its mouth, secured together through said ply; and a suspension hanger secured to the outside late receivable into the cut-out in the tu e above which its free end is adapted to project to suspend the bag; and an article-supporting device on the inside plate within the bag.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

THOMAS MANAHAN.

Witnesses J ENNIE WERSTEIN, EDWARD WIESNER. 

